It didn't take long for Trump to turn a democracy into an autocracy. US now 'most dysfunctional and unfree political system' in industrialized world: expert https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fascism-2671772066/ Political scientist Ian Bremmer says that President Donald Trump has quickly made the United States into "the principal driver of geopolitical uncertainty" in just three short months. In his latest video commentary, Bremmer outlines the chaos and instability that Trump has singlehandedly created by launching a trade war against nearly every single nation on Earth, including a remote island solely inhabited by penguins. "The most powerful country in the world, the biggest economy in the world, the home of the global reserve currency, and yet at the same time by far the most dysfunctional and kleptocratic and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies," he said. "That's what we're looking at right now and of course that's a really challenging thing for everybody to navigate." Bremmer said that Trump's global trade wars were the most obvious source for this instability, and he said that it's led to countries across the world seriously contemplating ways to disentangle their economies from the United States given the risks associated with tying their fortunes too closely to a nation that has twice elected Trump. He also emphasized the way the Trump-led U.S. is antagonizing essentially the entire world. "The U.S. is picking all sorts of fights simultaneously," he said. "The U.S., at the same time it's hitting other countries on trade, is also trying to make itself less attractive to tourists to come to the United States, make them worry more that they are going to be treated as they might be in an emerging market." In addition to all this, Bremmer said that the administration was picking domestic fights by trying to bury any checks on the power of the executive branch, which he said "undermines the rule of law and makes the U.S. a less attractive place, over the long term, to do business." Watch the video below or at this link.
China is not going to be the economic superpower it believes it is. This tariff war with the US is just resulting other Asian countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia taking China's place as the supplier of cheap goods that the US needs. One only has to look at You Tube videos of Chinese businesses closing left and right, Chinese employees being laid off in the thousands. China has sold some US bonds to hit at the US. US delisting Chinese companies in US stock exchange will complete China's destruction. With the loss of US capital markets, these Chinese companies will lose big time.
Brown, Mark went on a thread-spree *ten in one go* during some sort of Sunday meltdown. He was handed a short ban for this petulant zone-shit-swamp. Yet another exhibit in the growing file marked dopamine-addled right-wingers seeking base-minded stimulation on ET without mental effort. Even @Buy1Sell2 the self-styled master of performative stoicism, fails to grasp politics in any serious historical or academic sense. Just read the opening of his The Conservative Principle if you want to witness a scrambled mash of conservative posturing and libertarian contradiction. Some form of Reagan era mish-mash and damn the contradictions and tensions. Not a serious mind.